Hate Lightroom!

I can see paying $9,99 a month for the current photoshop in order to download RAW photos, but I HATE Lightroom, and don't want it anywhere near my computer.  Any advice on how to reach a human being to see if there's a way to do this?

What's the problem? Nobody is forcing you to actually install LR even with the photography bundle.
Mylenium

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  • Creative Cloud hat Lightroom 5 nicht entfernt und stattdessen Lightroom CC dazu installiert - kann ich die Alte löschen?

    Hallo zusammen,
    meine Frage steht schon in der Überschrift. Ich nutze einen iMac mit Yosemite.
    Nachdem ich heute die aktuellen Updates über die Creative Cloud bezogen habe, hatte ich auf einmal neben meiner Adobe Lightroom 5 - Version eine weitere Lightroom CC - Version. Diese wurde ja vor kurzem released.
    Ich bin ein wenig irritiert, denn unter Windows war ich es gewohnt, dass Lightroom nach einem großen VersionsUpdate automatisch die alte Version entfernt hat, was hier offenbar nicht passiert ist. Warum das?
    Kann ich die Lightroom 5 - Version bedenkenlos deinstallieren, ohne wichtige Daten zu verlieren?
    Wenn ja, wie werde ich die alte Version vollständig wieder los, denn die Creative Cloud bietet mir keine Deinstallations-Option (ausgegraut) dafür an.
    Über Hilfe wäre ich dankbar.
    Mfg

    LR 5.7 does not have uninstaller file , you can simply trash it from Applications folder.
    Also if you wish , you may back Lightroom catalog , it will be present under Pictures folder on your Mac.

  • Lightroom 3 - The worst program Adobe has ever put out...

    If anyone cares to read this, I will be the first to say DO NOT UPGRADE!!
    I am spreading the word - facebook, word of mouth, every professional photographer in LA I know, blogs, etc. 
    You gotta raise hell to get changes.
    Lets see if Adobe will do anything about these issues...
    I thought that Adobe created "beta" for a reason - to smooth out all the kinks before they put the disk out. Nope. 
    I have been waiting for them to put out updates on many issues since I purchased the disk a month ago.... Still waiting Adobe!!!
    It is excruciating to watch my photos take literally 4-5 minutes to open.  Even worse, is the time it takes to save from Photoshop CS5 back to Lightroom - I timed 14min. FOR A PHOTO!
    I feel like the old days when I rendered video - went out to get a coffee, and came back to find the spinning of wheel of death still spinning.
    Oh, and I got to talk to India today too! for 3.5 hours - with no resolution to my problems. 
    Susheel accessed my computer remotely  - saw my catalog - sees 73,000 images, and asks "are you a photographer?"  REALLY?!  DId you REALLY just ask me that Susheel??
    Why I HATE Lightroom 3 - let me count the ways:
    1. Adobe closed their tech support in Portland (whom I have spoken to many times, and ALWAYS got my problems resolved.  They always went above & beyond the protocol - and we sit here and wonder why the US economy is crashing), now you get a no-name person in India or in the philippines (who have no extension, no email, not even a direct line so when you sit on a call for 3.5 hours and need to call back you are starting all over again.. Dear Adobe - do we live in 1980?? You are suppose to be a LEADER in technology. 
         I am morally against outsourcing, my artwork is all about the death of american industrial capitalism.  In a time when the US is in crisis, Adobe works on moving things out of the US.  I'm outraged - You can't get someone in the US EVEN IF YOU TRIED!  The best I could do was talk to someone in sales about this - wow. What does that say - American's "look good and sound good to sell our product, but when it comes to something advanced in technology like using the product and trouble shooting, we prefer to use someone with no extension in another country"
    2. They don't offer support for anyone who is running off a network (they expect professionals to be working off their local "c" drive or Mac internal hard drive.  HA!! 
    3. They continued to blame my network - even though my network is running smoothly, has no limitations on access, will open directly into photoshop just fine (and quick!), worked absolutely perfectly in Lightroom 2.... Yeah, it's the network, riiight.
    4. Lightroom 3 is corrupting files when opening into Photoshop CS5 - if I'm lucky enough to open them
    5. When I do get a photograph open, it loses it's filters once saved back into Lightroom (I rate my photos to help me navigate through the masses) - this really is hurting my workflow. When I shoot 800 images in the studio in one day - I DO NOT want to go back and fish around to find the edited version that lost its flag...
    6. I have been promised to get a phone call "sometime next week" since there is no extension I can call back on to move forward.  I'll keep you updated - let you know if Susheel keeps his word.  He couldn't tell me who was going to call me, or when, but he "assures" me it will happen.
         I wont hold my breath

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    Keith_Reeder wrote:
    ambienttroutmask wrote:
    So the worst programme Adobe ever put out, yet even though you can have a 30 day trial you still went out and brought it...
    Yep, everything is always someone else's fault. It's never because they've made a stupid decision to buy before making absolutely sure that the software will work for them.
    Seems like nobody is prepared to take responsibility for their own actions these days.
    So, by that logic Adobe does not have to take ANY responsibility for pushing this kludge out the door?  Given they had a RC ready almost INSTANTLY after release should be sufficient to show they KNEW they were pushing garbage out the door.  Adobe is indeed responsible for their offering a know buggy product, bugs which CROSS PLATFORMS so it has to be the core code design not the user hardware or anything a given user has done.  Sure some systems might have setups which help make these issues more apparent, but that is on Adobe to deal with as they should publish limitations and known configurations which can potentially induce greater problems...but these entail an admission and accepting responsibility for the original buggy release...btw, release notes used to be where one would find quirks info and how to work around them post system requirements being carved in stone and set to entice the lowest common denomonator user.
    One more thing...LR is marketed not as a PRO TOOL, it is sold as a tool for the average to hobby level photographer.  That is also has huge appeal to the pro market is a happy accidentally-on-purpose thing...but to berate people who don't feel it's their job to troubleshoot a commercial app is completely unreasonable...but anymore the US consumer is the largest beta tester group on the planet...I wonder how our EU counterparts are fairing as ironically, they have stronger consumer protection laws...try pushing a crap product out in the German market...heh-heh, yeah good luck with that.
    Actually I would say this is not the worst software Adobe has ever pushed out the door but perhaps the worst photography software they ever sent as RTM.  Many, many PDF related apps and utils have actually been worse and we won't get into what they have done to Flash and Dreamweaver after that acquisition.  The closest analog I can see if that of what happened to Norton products post Norton being purchased by Symmantec.
    However, I am willing to give Adobe time to address this because they did have the RC ready almost right away.  Should they have done this?  No way, but perhaps the marketing wonks put the company in the position where it had to meet the release date even if issues were discovered and fixes in the pipeline already and it was gonna be a 3-9 week delay before the issues were mostly fixed.  But they did and well, even those who ran the beta, ran the 30-day trial did not find the issues because they simply did not use that part of the program enough for the bugs to manifest their effects to the degree when you the user, realize something odd is happening.
    I too am pissed, beyond belief as I depend on LR for my business, I can, however work around it for a while but I don't make money as a photographer I use photography for my business so the issues, while causing huge levels of frustration, are not fatal....yet...all I know is I don't want to revert to LR2.7 because I have done so much work onLR3/ LR3.2RC already and the tools themselves are indeed superior in LR3.x....when they work and that is the rub.  So many here are telling those with these bugs affecting their income/workflow bought into this to save time and leverage the bestter NR/sharpening and I say much improved adjustment tools.  I don't use the lense profiles at all really so nothing special for me there.
    I would ask a question...I am sure this has been asked and answered but, eh, why not one more time because search is sooooo "haaaard"
    but does this issue affect all file types?  I am shooting DNG but can switch to PEF if needed and convert on import but would rather just shoot DNG.  I am not willing to switch to JPG because if I have to do this I give up too much control on my images, for that I would switch back to LR2.7.
    Also, what versions of Camera RAW were used in the beta and what versions are being used with LR3.  I know I did upgrade to ACR6.2(?) or whatever the most current version.  I understand there are a ton of factors at play in these bugs but I do doubt it's ACR as my old antique PS CS3 version of Photoshop does not have any problems, of course it's using the old version of ACR 4.6(?) again sorry I forget what version exactly but it's trivial and can be determined.
    I like LR because I don't need the advanced features of PS all that often, still PS is a fun tool to have as a backup for the complicated shots though I don't have time to really spend in it as I would like to...
    But in general I guess I am trying to say, Adobe had to know in advance of the RTM original LR3 because they had the RC ready almost instantly.  Of course past releases of LR also had the same experience just the bugs were, well, not as impactful I suppose.  I have been happy with LR since 1.x versions but this version is painful to support...and I as I previously posted I won't screw with Adobe's refund people, likely off-shored staff who get bonuses for talking customers OUT of getting a refund, I will simply file a chargeback with Mastercard...that is why I use it, so I don't have to let companies waste my time wading through their red-tape.  And btw, Adobe knows the customer will WIN any chargeback because this evidence of a known to be defective product was sold to the consumer and the customer even allowed the mfg to remediate the issue only they failed to deliver in a timely fashion.  So, if one is not happy just "go to the mattresses"...use the chargeback hammer.  The bonus is every chargeback granted to the consumer costs the retailer, Adobe in my case, $35 when they lose...

  • Lightroom 4.3 suddenly hangs-up

    Importing Canon RAW files,  "copy as DNG", Lightroom 4.3 creates the DNG files (I can see them using Windows Explorer) but never adds the files to the Catalog, even after waiting over night.
    Also tried opening a new catalog.  It also exhibits the same behavior, So possibly something is wrong with the RAW files; but, they open just fine usiig Photoshop Elements 10 which also opens the DNG files hat Lightroom created.

    Well, after several retries of getting the LR installer to work, it suddenly just worked.  LR3 is working in Win 8 for me now.  All I need is for Epson to finally release Win 8 drivers for the R1900.

  • LIGHTROOM 5.2 Seriennummer Und Infomation Angabe...

    Hallo ich möchte gerne wissen ob jemand auch so ein Problem  hat Lightroom Installiert aber noch nicht Registriert bzw. Freigeschaltet worden.
    Seriennummer eingeben, Infomation eingegeben. Sodann wollte ich den unteren Button wo Weiter steht klicken aber es ist nicht anklickbar.
    Online zu Adobe rein gegangen und von da aus versucht zu Aktivieren bzw. Registrieren. Dort wird angezeigt Seriennummer ungültig oder ein Fehler ist aufgetreten versuchen sie es später noch mal.
    Ich habe Lightroom 5.2 gekauft und die Serien nummer ist Gültig. Es ist verdammt ärgerlich weil ich viel Geld für so ein programm bezahlt habe.
    Adobe Support angeschreiben und bis heute immer noch keine Antwort bekommen.
    Wo bleibt die kompotenz und zuverlässigkeit
    Von Hilfe keine Spur
    Ein System fehler liegt offensichtlich bei Adobe und sollte behoben werden, da ich mein Lightroom nicht freischalten kann,  die Seriennummer wird nicht erkannt.

    Hallo anitalora,
    ich habe keinen Zweifel, dass du Lightroom auf ehrlichem Weg bestellt und gekauft hast. Die wichtígere Frage ist vielleicht, ob dein Anbieter genau so seriös war. Ich würde auf jeden Fall mal deine Bestell- und Abrechnungsunterlagen herrichten und bei Adobe direkt anrufen. Ich hatte vor langer Zeit auch mal den Fall, dass eine Acrobat-Seriennummer aus einer Programmsuite offenbar doppelt belegt war. Nach Zusendung der gewünschten Erwerbsunterlagen per Fax an die genannte Adobe-Adresse erhielt ich anstandslos eine neue Seriennummer.
    Es zeigen natürlich auch andere Anfragen im Forum, dass es bei Adobe selbst auch nicht immer professionell und fehlerfrei zugeht. Es menschelt halt.
    Ärgerlich ist es allemal.
    Viel Erfolg wünscht dir
    Bernhard

  • Lightroom - nicht nur das Programm sondern auch der Support für die Tonne?

    Hallo!
    Wer hat denn bislang qualifizierten Support zu Lightroom und insbesondere zum Thema "out of memory"-Fehler erhalten? Bei mir gipfelt die schwachsinnige Unterhaltung mit Herrn Zimmermann in dessen Aufforderung, Fragen, die von ihm bislang nicht gestellt wurden zu beantworten, denn sonst könne man mir nicht helfen. Das Theater zieht sich nun seit dem 28. Februar hin und ist kaum mehr zu überbieten!
    So gewinnt man Kunden!
    MfG
    Hüsges

    Ich hatte vor kurzem das gleiche Problem.
    Au der Englischen Internet Seite http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/preference-file-locations-lightroom-41.html gibt es eine Anleitung zum Deinstallieren von Lightroom.
    Dieses Dokument Druckst Du dir am besten aus und löschst dann alle Ordner die unter der Überschrift  "File locations in Mac OS X" aufgeführt sind.
    Bitte beachte das im Finder unter Finder/Einstellungen/Seitenleiste/Benutzername (Dein Name)/Dein Mac die häkschen gesetzt sind sonst wird Dir der Benutzerordner nicht angezeigt!
    Um die User Library sichtbar zu machen musst Du im Finder unter " Gehe zu" bei gedrückter alt Taste auf Gehe zum Ordner Klicken und ~/Library eingeben, das Wellenzeichen bekommst Du mit alt N und danach leertaste.
    Wenn Du die Ordner in der Liste gelöscht hast machst du einen Neustart und Installierst Lightroom Neu danach hat Lightroom bei mir wieder Funktioniert.
    Viel erfolg
    Gruss
    Theofanis

  • No camera profiles for D90 and D80 files in ACR 8.3?

    Hello,
    I recently bought in to Adobe's Creative Cloud and downloaded the latest version of Photoshop and ACR. I love the new process and everything about the new Photoshop, however, when I went to re-edit some older images taken with a Nikon D80 and D90, there were no profiles to be found under the camera calibration tab. What gives? My only option for D90 files is "ACR 4.6" and "ACR 4.4 and 3.6" for the D80 files. Where are all the rest? What am I missing? What's strange is that they are all there in Lightroom. I hate Lightroom, though, and would prefer to continue working within ACR if possible.
    Thanks a ton for any insight.

    Here is what I have for D90 camera profiles in the Camera\Nikon D90 and Adobe Standard folders under ProgramData with PS-CC and ACR 8.3 installed:
    C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles\Camera\Nikon D90>dir
    Volume in drive C is C - Boot
    Volume Serial Number is 26BE-4B1F
    Directory of C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles\Camera\Nikon D90
    01/11/2014  02:51 PM    <DIR>          .
    01/11/2014  02:51 PM    <DIR>          ..
    03/18/2013  11:32 AM           112,100 Nikon D90 Camera D2X Mode 1.dcp
    03/18/2013  11:32 AM           112,100 Nikon D90 Camera D2X Mode 2.dcp
    03/18/2013  11:32 AM           112,100 Nikon D90 Camera D2X Mode 3.dcp
    03/18/2013  11:32 AM           112,100 Nikon D90 Camera Landscape.dcp
    03/18/2013  11:32 AM           112,098 Nikon D90 Camera Neutral.dcp
    03/18/2013  11:32 AM           112,098 Nikon D90 Camera Portrait.dcp
    03/18/2013  11:32 AM           112,098 Nikon D90 Camera Standard.dcp
    03/18/2013  11:32 AM           112,096 Nikon D90 Camera Vivid.dcp
                   8 File(s)        896,790 bytes
    C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles\Adobe Standard>dir *D90*
    Volume in drive C is C - Boot
    Volume Serial Number is 26BE-4B1F
    Directory of C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles\Adobe Standard
    03/18/2013  11:32 AM            55,838 Nikon D90 Adobe Standard.dcp
                   1 File(s)         55,838 bytes
    I believe these profiles can also come from installing the DNG Converter 8.3, so if the profiles don't seem to exist, then try downloading and installing the DNGC 8.3 from:
    http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates

  • 5d MarkII RAW- unsupported image format?

    I've seen the topic on bad RAW conversion into Aperture from the current Canon 5d MkII model - but I can't even view my images any larger than thumbnail-sized. When I click on them it says "unsupported image format", double clicking sets the thumbnail in the view only mode with "loading" to infinity!
    How very disappoing. I hate Lightroom and really don't want to change over!
    Any suggestions?
    Thanks!

    you can always use DPP to convert the sRAW to .tiff or .jpg and use aperture to manage ... but converting to .tiff defeats the purpose of the smaller files ...
    i haven't ever used any sRAW, don't see a point personally ... storage is cheap these days, CF cards are cheap these days ...
    to me it is akin to buying a v-12 and 'turning off' 8 of the cylinders ...

  • Wer hat Erfahrung mit Katalogimport aus Photoshop Album 2.0 in Lightroom

    Ich bin aktuell in der Kaufentscheidung zu einer neuen Fotoverwaltung. Ich habe überwiegend Familien- und Urlaubsfotos, die alle getagt sind (Kategorien und Personen). Bevor ich mich für Lightroom entscheide, möchte ich wissen, ob ich den Katalog mit den Tags aus Photoshop Album 2.0 in Lightroom übernehmen kann. Ich bin für konstruktive Informationen Dankbar!

    Muss man nicht lange rumeiern: Die Antwort ist Nein. Du verwendest ein gnadenlos veraltetes Produkt und der Katalog ließe sich noch nicht mal in ältere Versionen von PS Elements importieren, weil das ein auf die Schnelle zusammengewürfeltes Format ist, dass mit den heutigen XMP-Daten nix zu tun hat. Alles, was nicht nativ in den EXIF/ IPTC oder sonstigen Metadaten der Bilder selbst steht, wird nirgendwoe anders auftauchen oder verfügbar sein.
    Mylenium

  • Hallo , meine festplatte hat sich verabschiedet, hab nun einen neuen pc und wollte lightroom neu herunterladen und mit meiner serialnummer aktivieren..., leider wird meine nummer nicht mehr erkannt was kann ich machen  ? danke für ne Antwort

    hallo , meine festplatte hat sich verabschiedet, hab nun einen neuen pc und wollte lightroom neu herunterladen und mit meiner serialnummer aktivieren..., leider wird meine nummer nicht mehr erkannt was kann ich machen ? danke für ne Antwort

    you need your serial number.  if you have that download the installation file(s) and install,
    Downloadable installation files available:
    Suites and Programs:  CC 2014 | CC | CS6 | CS5.5 | CS5 | CS4 | CS3
    Acrobat:  XI, X | 9,8 | 9 standard
    Premiere Elements:  13 | 12 | 11, 10 | 9, 8, 7 win | 8 mac | 7 mac
    Photoshop Elements:  13 |12 | 11, 10 | 9,8,7 win | 8 mac | 7 mac
    Lightroom:  5.7.1| 5 | 4 | 3
    Captivate:  8 | 7 | 6 | 5.5, 5
    Contribute:  CS5 | CS4, CS3
    Download and installation help for Adobe links
    Download and installation help for Prodesigntools links are listed on most linked pages.  They are critical; especially steps 1, 2 and 3.  If you click a link that does not have those steps listed, open a second window using the Lightroom 3 link to see those 'Important Instructions'.

  • I have a 'Love - Hate' relationship with Adobe Lightroom

    Adobe's Lightroom is probably the best software out there for image manipulation, It is, however, just as probably the absolute worst for keeping track of your images.  I ask the questions, as many thousands of others, 'Where have my images gone?' 'Why are my images greyed out?' 'Where has my library gone to?' Isn't it time that Adobe took notice of these same questions that keep arising and doing something to resolve this problem of disappearing images.  Surely you must be sick of reading these same questions being asked so why aren't you using some of the money paid buy customers for the software to correct this nightmare.  If this was a car, it may look and feel good but if it doesn't drive it's useless.
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    mikejduk

    I have been using LR since it came out, Version 1, and never lost any images.
    You aren't doing something right. LR doesn't indiscriminately delete and or lose images. It is a Database system that catalogs your images. If you have thumbnails that are grayed out and or with a ? Mark that means the program has lost track of that image. That only happens if you moved it using some other program. Deleted it using some other program. Disconnected the external drive the image/s were on.
    That same question is posted by people that do not fully understand how LR works and how to use LR properly. If this was a car you would need a Drivers License to operate it which you would first need to pass a test showing you know how to properly operate, drive, a car.
    You are in the Import dialog window, Why are you there? Are you importing new images? Have you MOVED images around on your hard drive using a File Manager?
    Yes LR thinks the images you are trying to import or duplicates, Copies, of images you already have in the catalog. Are they? Just because an image is grayed out in the Library module doesn't mean you have to import them again. The graying out mean LR can't find that image in the folder it thinks it is in, IE where it was originally when imported. What did you do to make that happen?
    I have images going back to 2004 on my computer. LR has never lost any of them. Have I had images display grayed out and with a ? mark? Yes I have. That was because I moved them from one drive or folder to another using a File Manager outside of LR. Once I pointed LR to the new location of those images the ? mark, and gray state, went away.

  • Lightroom features/bug fixes I would like to see in next version

    I love the Adobe Lightroom Application. It is very intiutive and out of the different RAW processing programs I've tried, it is the only one that has most of the features I need and has the least amount of complications. However, I think there are still places to improve upon:
    * Decouple raw processor from the monolithic software executable so that updates to the RAW camera component to add new cameras can be made without requiring huge downloads or reinstallation of a new software program but simply updating a few DLLs and files.
    * Improve performance of the Develop panel. It is extremely slow on my laptop running 32bit Windows 7 and 3GB of RAM with dual core processor (pre-Core duo). 8 to 10 seconds for the "loading" message to disappear per image no matter how often I have loaded or edited the image. No caching is being done at all.
    * On my higher powered Desktop (Quad Core2 processor/4GB RAM,Windows 7), Adobe Lightroom frequently will start behaving strangely after only a few hours of running. It seems like it is leaking resources or something because eventually functionality will start failing. Specifically, right clicking on images will no longer bring up menus for example. If i shutdown and restart the application, the problem goes away.
    * Photoshop-like healing brush. Many times I want to "brush" over areas of image defects but the only choice in Lightroom is the healing tool which always creates a circle and does not allow "brushing".  This only works if the defect is a spot and not an irregular area.
    * Adjustment with Arbitrary Mask tool. Bibble 5 has this nice concept where you can mask out a section of an image and then apply adjustments to it without affecting the rest of the image. You simply draw a mask and then you can apply adjustments to it. The only option in Lightroom is to select the "Mask" option but that leaves the decision of where exactly you want to mask to Lightroom which only uses edge contrast to determine masking area.
    * I'd like a way to tell Lightroom to update the metadata (write out) on all images that are out of sync. Right now the write metadata function will write out metadata to all files whether or not it is required. This means that it is inpractical to try to update your entire catalog as tens of thousands of files will be written to and not just those that are out of sync. This is very important as a way to preserve editing metadata in case of loss of the Lightroom catalog.
    * Option to write import metadata to imported files. For example, I have an import metadata for copyright and keywords and I want the imported JPG or DNG files to permanently have this metadata so that even if individual files are copied my copyright and other metadata are preserved with it.
    * Option to append text labels to automatically generated import destination folder names. So for example, I can still import into date based directories but append a description to help me remember what the folder contains when I'm later browsing it. Right now it is either/or. You can either choose the name of the import folder destination OR you can have the software generate one for you.
    * A google-type search box at the top of the library panel so that ad-hoc searches can be done without having to fool around with the filters. Everybody is used to a single search box for simple textual searches.
    * some way to filter images by whether they have been exported previously or not
    * Please support lens and shooting information for Sony DSLRs in both JPG and RAW files. Also support 3rd party lenses on Sony DSLRs without assigning the wrong Minolta lenses to them. I want to be able to see both Lens name, max aperture, focusing distance (if available) etc...
    * Some way to edit the Shooting lens information to support lenses which are not known to Lightroom, and if suggestion above won't be implemented, some way for the user to edit the lens id --> mapping table so that I can properly map my own 3rd party lenses.
    * Facial recognition/tagging option. Some way to have Lightroom apply people tags after I have tagged representative images. Handle multiple people in a scene.
    * Automatic (batch) export of images on schedule. I would like a way to configure Lightroom to automatically generate particular export configuration of all my images in a catalog (or some defined subset) such that new files or files that have been edited since last export are automatically exported on a schedule even if Lightroom is not running. Perhaps a Lightroom batch service. This is so that I can always  have up to date processed versions  of my images for use in my media center display. I would like to configure the Lightroom batch service to run weekly at say 2am every day, run a particular export function and export all new or modified images to a network share accessible by the media center. That way, I can always have access to cropped and edit images without manually doing exports all the time or having to remember which files I've edited and then export them. Also by doing this at off hours it would not slow down my computer while I'm using it.
    * Better profiles for Sony DSLRs and support for their picture styles the same way that Canon and Nikon camera are supported.
    * Teethering support for Sony DSLRs that have this feature
    * Support for parametric plugins -- Plugins that do not require the image to be exported before running.
    * Simple support for "picture frames" when exporting. Some way to apply a frame to an image as part of export with a dozen or so frames included and a way for 3rd parties to create more.
    * A better way to safely share catalogs or pictures between multiple computers/users in a networked environment.

    Did these come to you all at once, or have you been saving them up for a while?
    Anyway, Adobe *should* be able to handle long lists of FR, but another option is to break them up and submit them for voting on the new FR/Idea site that will shortly replace this one: (It was really hot for a while, but has cooled down lately...)
    http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/products/photoshop_family_photoshop_lightro om
    HopeSpringsEternal2008 wrote:
    I love the Adobe Lightroom Application...
    Me too, and continue to push for improvements as well...
    HopeSpringsEternal2008 wrote:
     * Decouple raw processor from the monolithic software executable so that updates to the RAW camera component to add new cameras can be made without requiring huge downloads or reinstallation of a new software program but simply updating a few DLLs and files.
    They are already decoupled - you can update ACR independently for new camera support, however it's released at about the same frequency as Lightroom itself, so that doesn't help much. Perhaps this should be reworded: "Provide more timely ACR updates..."
    HopeSpringsEternal2008 wrote:
    * Improve performance of the Develop panel. It is extremely slow on my laptop running 32bit Windows 7 and 3GB of RAM with dual core processor (pre-Core duo). 8 to 10 seconds for the "loading" message to disappear per image no matter how often I have loaded or edited the image. No caching is being done at all.
    I've been complaining about this for a long time - ACR cache is worthless for me too - if dev image not in RAM cache, takes same amount of time to render whether in ACR disk cache or not. Some say ACR cache speeds things up for them - perhaps you need to *believe*...
    PS - After new motherboard upgrade, this went from 15 seconds to 3 seconds average.
    HopeSpringsEternal2008 wrote:
     * On my higher powered Desktop (Quad Core2 processor/4GB RAM,Windows 7), Adobe Lightroom frequently will start behaving strangely after only a few hours of running. It seems like it is leaking resources or something because eventually functionality will start failing. Specifically, right clicking on images will no longer bring up menus for example. If i shutdown and restart the application, the problem goes away.
    Yep - Lightroom still has some leaks - gotta restart it from time to time...
    HopeSpringsEternal2008 wrote:
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    HopeSpringsEternal2008 wrote:
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    HopeSpringsEternal2008 wrote:
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    HopeSpringsEternal2008 wrote:
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    HopeSpringsEternal2008 wrote:
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    -R

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